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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1918
Page
1
Premier Lloyd George telegraphed to the Lord Mayor of London at a luncheon celebrating America’s entry into the war. He said the Americans would give the Prussian military junta the surprise of their lives in the coming weeks.
Washington reports the Federal Trade Commission has completed their investigation into flour milling and jobbing prices. The Food Administration will use the figures to set a basis for a fair flour price.
President Wilson signs the government corporation bill with $500 million capital and up to $3 billion in bonds to aid essential war industries. He also commutes the prison term of Frank Ryan, head of the International Ironworkers Union, linked to the dynamite conspiracy. Other items include appointments in the War Department and wartime warrants in Alabama.
Reports from nine counties and parishes in Texas and Louisiana show full quotas completed in the third Liberty Loan. Larger cities report over half subscribed and overall subscriptions are strong. Telegrams from across the nation pour into the Treasury, and President Wilson plans to speak in Baltimore in support of the loan.
Today designated National Bakers Day by the master bakers association of the United States. Simultaneous meetings planned in every state will organize cooperation with the Federal and State food administrations to carry out proposed plans.
The Federation of Roumanian Jews of America has launched a nationwide message to Roumanian Jewish groups asking for delegates to the eleventh annual convention at the Hebrew Technical School in New York. The goal is to urge the Roumanian government to support Jewish emancipation.
Pittsburg Landing Tenn April 6 veterans from distant parts of the country gathered at Shiloh battlefield for the 50th anniversary reunion and celebration of a major Civil War battle as blue and gray lines reassemble for remembrance.
Daniel S. Kinnally the sexton of the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer on the upper West Side raised 20000 toward the $800000 cost of the church. He began two years ago collecting mostly coins before larger donations and Liberty Bonds helped reach the total.
Rural schoolhouses nationwide will serve as Liberty Loan community centers for the third loan drive. Meetings are planned next Friday night in 100,000 schools with prominent speakers, bells rung, bonfires lit, and parades drawing farmers to the events. School officials have volunteered to organize the gatherings nationwide.
In Baltimore on April 6 Miss Ethel Faxon Hundley, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. Mason Hundley, married Hugo V. de Pena First Secretary of the Uruguayan Legation and son of Dr. Carlos Marie de Pena and Mme. de Pena. The ceremony was held at the bride’s parents’ home with Leopold Monera naval attaché of the Brazilian embassy as best man.
Two army officers lost track while ballooning and spotted a distant rustic in a field. They asked where they were, but the man only replied that they were in a balloon, starkly clarifying their altitude as the craft drifted by. No record of the officers' reaction.
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